Woolton Picture House stages 12 Days of Christmas this December

Woolton Picture House is set to host a ’12 Days of Christmas’ in the run up to the big day next month.

The special season of festive film favourites is the first major event at the historic 1927 venue, which is being reborn as a community cinema after being closed since the pandemic.

Tickets are on sale now, although you’ll have to be quick because many of the carefully curated cinematic treats are already sold out.

The 12 Days of Christmas opens on December 12 with the classic 1954 heart-warmer White Christmas and concludes on Christmas Eve with It’s a Wonderful Life.

The programme also includes How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Holiday, Home Alone, Love Actually, Scrooge, Bad Santa, Die Hard and Meet Me in St Louis among others.

Woolton Picture House is Liverpool’s oldest surviving cinema and the city’s only remaining single-screen picture house.

For nearly a century, it has served as a space for film, connection and community - from its early Path newsreels during World War II to its red-carpet film premieres and recent appearances in Nowhere Boy, the biopic of John Lennon.

Now, after several years of closure and uncertainty, the goal is to return the building to the people of Woolton - as a place not only for cinema, but also for live music, theatre, community meetings and local arts events.

Kevin Fearon and Gillian Miller, the husband and wife team who run Liverpool’s Royal Court, have separately taken on the task of fundraising £700,000 to save the much-loved venue, with a fundraising campaign launched in October by the new Woolton Cinema CIC.

It has already received a stunning £100,000 cash donation from Crampton Bros (Coopers) Ltd to support the restoration and preserve the venue for the community.

The 12 Days of Christmas runs at Woolton Picture House from December 12-24. Full programme details, current ticket availability and booking HERE